{"id":532,"date":"2026-09-03T04:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:47:38","slug":"you-might-be-lying-about-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/you-might-be-lying-about-who-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"You Might Be Lying About Who You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- obsidian --><\/p>\n<p>One of my NLP\/Hypnosis mentors asked everyone to write down every identity they claimed: writer, coach, entrepreneur, artist, healer, everything. The lists got long.<\/p>\n<p>Then he gave one instruction: <strong>cross out any title you could not support with something you had actually done in the last 30 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exercise was meant to separate self-delusion from evidence.<\/p>\n<p>A label can make you feel like the kind of person who does the work before you have done it. &#8220;Writer&#8221; can become a substitute for writing. &#8220;Coach&#8221; can become a substitute for coaching. The identity feeds the ego, and the ego lowers the pressure to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>Your identity needs recent, real world evidence. Keep the title you want to grow into, but until your recent actions can support it, treat it as a direction, not a finished fact.<\/p>\n<p>Do the exercise yourself.<br \/>\nWrite down &#8220;Titles I claim&#8221; and &#8220;Evidence from the last 30 days.&#8221; Cross out unsupported titles, not forever, just for now. Then choose one title you want to earn and schedule one concrete receipt for it this week.<\/p>\n<p>RW<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my NLP\/Hypnosis mentors asked everyone to write down every identity they claimed: writer, coach, entrepreneur, artist, healer, everything. The lists got long. Then he gave one instruction: cross out any title you could not support with something you had actually done in the last 30 days. The exercise was meant to separate self-delusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindset","category-nlp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}